Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close relatives.

All speciesexcept Homo sapiens are extinct; the last surviving relative, Homo neanderthalensis, died out 30,000 years ago, although recent evidence suggests thatHomo floresiensis lived as recently as 12,000 yearsago.

The last three have been considered to be subspecies of Homo sapiens,but analysis of mitochondrial DNA from H.

All species except Homo sapiens are extinct; the last surviving relative, Homo neanderthalensis, died out 30,000 years ago, although recent evidence suggests that Homo floresiensis lived as recently as 12,000 years ago.

A minority of zoologists consider that the two species of chimpanzees (usually treated in the genus Pan), and maybe the gorillas (usually treated in the genus Gorilla) should also be included in the genus based on genetic similarities.

The last three have been considered to be subspecies of Homo sapiens, but analysis of mitochondrial DNA from H.

Binomial name Homo georgicus Homo georgicus is a species that was suggested to 2002 to describe fossil hominid skulls and jaws found in Dmanisi, Georgia in 1999 and 2001, which seem intermediate between Homo habilis and H. erectus.

Binomial name Homo neanderthalensis King, 1864 The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of genus Homo (Homo neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago (the Middle Palaeolithic and Lower Paleolithic, in the Pleistocene epoch).

Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is an extinct, potentially distinct species of the genus Homo and may be the direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe.

Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with...

Homorhodesiensis and Homo sapiens idaltu), existing in Africa as a part of the operation of the Saharan pump, and not the European forms of Homo heidelbergensis, are thought to be direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens.

Homo antecessor is likely a direct ancestor living 750,000 years ago evolving into Homo heidelbergensis appearing in the fossil record living roughly 600,000 to 250,000 years ago through various areas of Europe.

Homo antecessor  Homo antecessor is an extinct hominin species that was discovered by E. Carbonell, J.L. Arsuaga and J.M. Bermudez de Castro.

The role of language in the story of human evolution remains largely a matter of speculation, but recent discoveries about the FOXP2 gene, "the first gene known to be involved in the development of speech and language"¹, suggest new lines of inquiry and raise hopes about progress in understanding the origins of speech and language.

The role of language in the story of human evolution remains largely a matter ofspeculation, but recent discoveries about the FOXP2 gene, "the first gene known to beinvolved in the development of speech and language"¹, suggest new lines of inquiry and raise hopes about progress inunderstanding the origins of speech and language.

Then about 250,000 years ago Homo helmei spread out of Africa to cover Eurasia and may have been the progenitor of Homo neanderthalensis in Eurasia as well as modern man in Africa.

Homo sapiens are believed to have evolved over 195,000 years ago during a near extinction of the Homo lines in Africa.

A mitochondrial DNA study of the human head louse, a type that is found only in the Americas and evolved on Homo erectus, but jumped to Homo sapiens between 50,000 and 25,000 years ago suggest cross species contact, probably in Asia.

Based on DNA studies it appears that Homo neanderthalis became extinct or, as evidenced in recent Portuguese skeleton, 24,500 BP, faded away by interbreeding into Homo sapiens sapiens.

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Articles - Posthuman(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)

The latter alternative would probably require either the redesign of the human organism using advanced nanotechnology or its radical enhancement using some combination of technologies such as genetic engineering, psychopharmacology, anti-aging therapies, neural interfaces, advanced information management tools, memory enhancing drugs, wearable computer, and cognitive techniques.

Homo excelsior (Latin for "higher man") is a term used in transhumanism for the posthuman.

The use of the Latin binomial implies the transhumanist idea of participant evolution as a hypothetical human progression through an intermediary form of the transhuman to the new species different from Homo sapiens.

More recently, the replacement within less than 100,000 years of Homo neanderthalensis by Homo sapiens migrating across Europe may have been passive and opportunistic, as some climate evidence suggests, or it may have been active and aggressive, as modern human behavior (Europeans and American Indians, for example) makes all too plausible.

(3) Is Homo erectus descended from Homo ergaster or is it either (a) descended from Homo habilis or (b) a coexisting branch descended from the same ancestor as Homo habilis?

These questions can only be answered with more complete fossils from the period 2.5 to 1.0 million years ago, which have so far eluded discovery.

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Online Debate Network Forums - A poll as to the veracity of the so-called varieties of proto-humans.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)

In this poll, I'd like to see who believes that there were once other "human beings" aside from the "species Homo sapiens sapiens." I've included some that probably have already been proven hoaxes, so hopefully no one will say they believe even those were real, but with the pond-scum-to-people crowd, one never knows.

Edit: I selected number ten, as I think there are and were human beings, and that's it, no "half-humans," so to speak.

Of the three or more species of hominid that existed between 2 million and 2.5 million years ago, only two made it through to a million years ago Homo erectus and the robust australopithecine.